Fighter pilots only, need apply, -

[herosrest]

I'm curious if any are interested in this little problem i'm having because of the attached photo.

I studied it - blown up to full screen - and it blew my mind.

I know what type of aircraft this is.
The period in history.
Where it flew and possibly even its squadron history via Google.



How can this colour photo be real? and yet it is.



Look at it full screen - the the detail in resolution is good for an airborne photograph.

The Buffalo fighter plane is from a Dutch squadron defending the East Indies against Invasion by Japan during the spring of 1942. Shortly after this picture would have been taken, every one of these planes, which numbered 80 or so, were blasted out of the sky in a few days.

The ships on the ocean surface will have been the destroyers and cruisers of the Dutch navy, very soon to be demolished in vicious naval engagements that none survived.
British, American, Australian and New Zealand warships perished beside them.
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/attachme...&postid=954029

[neverwhere]

umm.. maybe someone made a replica and flew it?

[herosrest]

Ya know - l don't think that's it.

[neverwhere]

just a guess

[herosrest]

No prob.
l found the pic searching another topic and saved it but not the address. Can't get to it,s web page.

An interesting picture.

[zybch]

Its been colourised. Or even colorized.
Certanly colour enhanced if nothing else.

The image is way to small to make out any significant details.

[leprechaun_40]

Believe it or not, they did have color film during WWII. It wasn't common, was quite expensive, but it did exist. Your photo is quite possibly one of them. I've seen alot of color action films and stills of various WWII battles. Not Hollywood, the real deal, actual footage of the war shot on color.

[zybch]

I've seen a lot of the colour WWII film.
It somehow makes it seem more real (at least to me) to see the stuff in colour.

I do a lot of contract work for a few photo shops, retouching images and that sort of thing, so while I'm not a fighter pilot, I do have a fair bit of experience in manipulating and fixing images, and to me the photo appears to have been colourised.

This doesn't detract from its interest value,

[zybch]

And a pic from the dark side.

Funny, no matter what you sat about the Nazis, they certanly had the best looking uniforms.

[herosrest]

Originally posted by zybch
And a pic from the dark side.

zybch - those are Finnish markings. They actually allied with Britain initially during Ussr's first invasion and subsequently joined the Axis.
Hence they were supplied US arms.

[zybch]

So did the Finish switch sides like the French eventually did or what?!

[herosrest]

Pretty much. They were caught in the middle of two juggernauts.

Ussr invaded 1940 - the Finns faught them to a standstill and a truce followed.
When the Axis unleashed Barbarossa on the Soviets and did so well early on the Finns threw in theie lot with Germany.

[neverwhere]

st00pid fins (btw, i have many finnish friends)